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march 1998
What do Studs Terkel, Negativland, Tom Brokaw and Noam Chomsky have in common? They're all jam-packed into Citizen Vagrom's Special Edition issue!

Showdown with Iraq: THE SEQUEL or, From Anonymous Sources "You'll never look at a remote-controlled video war the same way again..."
-- Anonymous Media Activist

Citizen Vagrom's micro-media fare for March includes rarely seen footage from the likes of Noam Chomsky and Studs Terkel, who offer devastating critiques of the mainstream media's drum beat toward war against the people of Iraq in 1991, and most recently, 1998. Media Literacy 101 for those who want to brush up on their corporate propaganda theory.

Fear and Favor
Pirated clips from the film censored by National PBS. What images were witheld from viewing audiences during Gulf War '91? How did executive producers at NBC answer to questions of lap-dog service to First World Economic interests? See the footage that didn't make it past corporate filters, and meet the filter himself, as he squirms to explain why he thought it best to toss the ethics of journalism aside and show only the "positive" side of the war. Noam Chomsky, hero of intellectual and construction worker alike, explains in plain English how the American public is compelled to go to war in the manner of a totalitarian state. Plus, a short lesson in Intellectual Self-Defense tossed in at no extra cost.

The Ad and the Ego
How do advertising and consumer culture contribute to the First World's need to dominate all natural resources on the planet? Learn a bit about the "grammer" of visual imagery, and how our basic human needs for friendship, recognition and self-esteem are co-opted by the Advertising/Empire industry.

Non-Corporate Newswire
The United Nations investigates human rights abuses in the U.S.; McDonald's attempts to strangle freedom of the press; McPrisons become big business; Internet hackers deface the Mexican government's home page in a show of solidarity with the Zapatista struggle for self-determination, and more...